Name Your Best Coin Discovery

I had a couple of finds, nothing too spectacular.

The first find was a recent one. I was opening up a roll of Jefferson dollars, when I found a die break on one of them.

About 11 years ago I was working at a movie theatre when I came across a 1996 off center Washington quarter.

And the third find worth writing about happened 2 years ago. I was at an estate sale and found a belt with a Morgan attached to the buckle. I asked how much it was, and the man running the sale told me it was a quarter. I bought it for 25 cents and removed it from the buckle. It was an 1879 in G-4.

Like I said, nothing too spectacular, but I was thrilled.

My best find in a dealers Junk Bin was a 1875 S Trade dollar in XF and payed 12 dollars for it. I also just found a 1908 S Ind Head Cent in Fine shape just a few months ago.

Hard to say what my best has been So far I've discovered two new edge varieties of Conder tokens, two previously unknown die varietes of Conder token, The second and finest known specimen of Warwickshire 340bis, the 1873-S V-2 Half Dime variety, the 16th known specimen of the 1797 S-121a large cent and I've cherrypicked many other rare die varieties for my collection.

Simply the discovery of collecting coins this year!

I had a small collection going and when we moved I was in a cleaning and organizing frenzy. I decided to put all my coins in one cigar box. And yes I cleaned some of my larger coins with a metal polish(bad I know, found this out way too late ) Went to the library to look up some of my coins and thats when the bug hit me hard. I have been at it full force since!

I pulled a 1912D Barber Half in VF condition out of a roll of half dollars.

Also pulled a 1960 Franklin Proof out of a roll of half dollars.

I'm afraid I've never had any lucky finds, but then, I've never search rolls or bags.

BUT, the best find I've ever heard of....

My dealer had a woman bring in a 1 OZ gold Panda. Apparently she was doing street clean up on the side of the freeway (court ordered perhaps?). And there it was.

I best find was 1 Dollar gold coin in a bottle of junk

Best coin finds:

1907 Indian cent from rolls of pennies (from $50 for the Cent Project)

1940-something Walking Liberty half from half dollar searching (can't remember the date now)

Several Buffalo nickels (mostly dateless) and 50D Jefferson key from nickel searching

Occasional nickel, dime, quarter, half and dollar proofs from roll searching; 1979P wide rim SBA dollars (quite a few now accumulated)

Just two weeks ago or so: from several hundred dollars of customer-wrapped halves- got two solid 40% silver rolls all together- customer wrapped them and deposited them to the bank that way.

I also had accumulated a wonderful collection of paper currency from circulation going back to the 30s with many silver certificates, but all that was stolen.


I've also picked up multiple 64L Indian Head cents for cheap over the years (less than $10 each) because they were mislabeled as 64 plain.